Onlookers walk past damage caused by a rocket fired from Lebanon into Israel, in Kibbutz Gesher HaZiv, near the northern city of Nahariya August 22, 2013. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun) / Reuters

Israeli fighter jets hit militant targets in Lebanon on Friday in retaliation for a rocket attack launched at Northern Israel from Lebanese soil the day before. An Al-Qaeda-connected group has claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack.

"The IAF [Israeli Air Force] targeted a terror site located
between Beirut and Sidon in response to a barrage of four rockets
launched at northern Israel yesterday," a statement from the
military read. "The pilots reported direct hits to the
target."

The attack took place near Naameh, according to defense sources,
AP reported.

The Abdullah Azzam Brigades - an Al-Qaeda-affiliated group
that had claimed similar rocket attacks on Israel in 2009 and
2011 – claimed responsibility for Thursday's missile salvo.

At least three rockets were launched at Israel from southern
Lebanon, setting off air raid sirens in the Nahariya and Acre
areas, Haaretz reported on Friday.

Lebanese sources said that four Katyusha rockets were launched at
Israel.

"I heard a weak explosion, and then in parallel to the siren,
I heard a stronger boom," Keinan Engel, a resident of the
northern town of Nahariya, told Army Radio. "I went to take
cover, in a reinforced room."

Eli Bean, director of Israel's Magen David Adom ambulance
service, said no one had been hurt.

"There are no casualties. There are no indications or reports
of anything hitting any populated area," he said on Army
Radio.

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